Absolutely frothed the chat about the shapes and the evolution of the block play at the beginning of the roosters vs storm review. Thanks fellas. Really wish the NRL wasn't so copyright hungry because a little vision to help me understand and visualize would be icing on the cake.
Jordie Barrett signed for Leinster, basically the Penrith of Irish rugby with the amount of players they’d produce who play for the other Irish provinces (Munster, Connacht and Ulster) Love the show boys keep up the great work! Coming from a fan in Dublin, Ireland!
Hey Boys. 1st time commenter - but I've been a Levels watcher since the beginning. You guys are the gold standard for Rugby League podcasts in 2024. Sorry for the long comment here - but I think this is important to run through. After 7 weeks of the comp I'm convinced that its time to ditch the bunker and put the power of decision making back in the hands of the on field officials asap. When you watch any game at the moment - you are guaranteed to have a mix of rulings on obstructions, knock-ons, and disruptors throughout the match - where even the expert commentators who have played and coached the game at the highest level - with the benefit of multiple replays - can't agree on the ruling. If they can't agree - how is the bunker supposed to come up with a ruling that will satisfy everyone. The short and obvious answer is it can't. I feel like the game is putting itself through torture - looking for perfection that it is never going to be able to achieve. My suggestion would be to go back to the standard Video Ref - who can only rule on the 'in goal try scoring put down' - to pick up the obvious knock on that the on field officials may not have been able to see. (That should be reviewed in 'real time' as well - not slowed down to the point where they are looking for 1mm of separation). Everything else should be put back in the hands of the on field referee and touch judges. This would completely change the game for the better. Instead of players falling on the ground hoping to be saved by the bunker - they are forced to compete on every play. The standard of refereeing would improve as well - as they can no longer rely on the bunker to make the call - and would be forced to sharpen up in areas where they may have gotten used to leaving it to the bunker. As a game - if we can accept that the refs are going to make some mistakes - but pick up on 90% of the obvious infringements - and let the bulk of the 'nit-picking' infringements that the bunker is struggling to get right anyway go through to the keeper - I am sure that the overall performance of the players and refs will improve.
Quick question for the boys why do the Melbourne storm get so over looked this year currently coming second and have beaten all the best teams but still everyone from the fans to the commentators doesn’t rate them
AFL was a religion for me growing up Saw the Blues win eight premierships! Been two many GFS well over a hundred thousand. 121.690 once.. when the Blues Carlton went down the gurgler! Along come the Storm. Can't believe My luck. Been to many games and three NRL grand finals! Still follow it the AFL, but no where near the NRL and the Storm. And prefer Rugby league! Carnt get enough. Love your pod guys!
No excuses, but we've had a bit of a grind against decent teams bar Souths, which even then it was 6-6 after 35 minutes to start the season. There were cracks in the Manly game, which were papered over by the draw being pulled from out of the fire. We have some older bodies in there, and they are already looking banged up only a quarter of the way through the season. Our middles aren't super young and are being loaded up on big minutes because there is no one else available to come in. No Niukore, Bunty, Jazz, Walker currently to spread the minutes out a bit. Ford and Capewell are also playing banged up. They expended a lot of energy to get a point in that draw. Add in a bit of travel and a two man bench. It's not hard to see why a fit and disciplined Drags ran a train on us. I'll see how we back up against the Titans before making too much of a judgement. Drop our bundle that game, and it will be a concern.
BIg Willie and Mr H. Thanks for the second best pod available. In no time you will beating Joe Rogan as the number 1. Willie please tell us the story on going the Cows. How it all went down. I remember the footage of you arriving in the Ville and all media attention surrounding it. Keep it up Legends. Best reviews of the games ever. Sorry Cooper!!
Any team would be excused for getting back to back spoons in their first few years as a club so it’s wild that the dolphins are playing as well as they are in their second year. They were missing multiple key players, their coach wasn’t even there and they absolutely swept the floor with the eels this past weekend. How humiliating is that for parra
I’ve got another one for you and mase mate, with ponga out for majority of the season, if the knights can get some salary cap dispensation, should they go to the loan market and try get sua falango from the storm. Both clubs win, sua gets first grade experience and knights get a fb with some X factor. Love the poddy, replaced kempys bloke in a bar in my rotation I love it that much!!
Lol. U guys contradicting yourself. For the last 3 weeks U been saying sam walker & Keary shldnt play together. Now ur saying Sammy needs to come back. I think they need a new coach- I agree with Horo, Robbo can't let go of his OG team members. Unlike Bellamy - who will drop anyone who isn't up to scratch cos he holds the teams goals ahead of anything else. Look at olam & Nelson. And Remember when Robbo brought SBW back🤦 lol that was the ultimate in not letting go of a player &was a massive fail. Nothing against SBW, but he had been out of the nrl for too long.
the one thing as a tigers supporter they need to fix is supporting the player running the ball, when they do that they will score more tries but its so rare to see a player support the player with the ball. there were many times in the games when the forwards got there hands free when poking through the line and no player even trying to support, this has been the problem for a decade
Kia Ora lads, Long time listener first time caller, just one for the RU-vid questions, less a question more an observation. I’ve seen a bit of negative press on Joey Manu making the switch to union (not from you guys) The same old narrative of “league players making the switch doesn’t work out because they don’t have the skill set” just wanna point out and I feel like it hasn’t been covered almost at all, Joseph Manu grew up playing League and Union and always excelling in both. I played in his team my junior years and my old man coached him and always said “he’ll be an all black” he was MVP for every reps team and every year of his life & played Union at pretty much the highest possible Representative level before he got chucked into the Roosters System end of high school, I know he’s super private about his life and also one of the most humble blokes but fuck it gets me pissed when I see journos bad mouthing his switch when they don’t know shit about the dude or his union history.
@@rendigica1566 for sure bro, dudes a freak athlete and literally always has been. Excited to see him in a black jersey hopefully and also just as excited to see if he returns to NRL, blessing to which ever code he plays
Hey guys, just wanted to let you guys know that Sam Walker failed a fitness test before the game vs storm and was not dropped. Great chat tho lads loving the content!
gday boys love the podcast , i agree what you say about walshy and been thinking about it a bit. Everything walsh dos is high risk and to get a few errors is acceptable for all the good shit he does.
Hey lads, just curious on your thoughts regarding Dale Finucane’s retirement due to concussions, what do you think his legacy in the game is? Seems kinda crazy he only play 5 origins, felt like to me he was born for it and played more than he did. Surely the sharkies all sprint out of the tunnel for him this weekend! Love the pod and look forward to it every week, L1 since day 1 💙
Hey boys, love the podcast. Would like your thoughts on this (potentially) controversial opinion: I think the Roosters are a poorly coach team in attack. They have great attacking players but they aren't a great attacking team. They rely on individual players to do something out of the ordinary for a lot of their points, not on a great attacking structure. I think it's poor coaching
Hey boys loving the energy you bring to the podcast! Always look forward to it during the week. I have a question about the NSW team and would love to hear your thoughts... I reckon that the big move for Madge to make that noone hase suggested is Moses at 7 and Clearly unleashed at 6. Replicate Cogger freeing him up at the end of the 23 GF, let Cleary run and play heads-up while someone else does the structure. It worked for Cronk and Thurston.It would give Cleary licence to absolutely kill it. Pairing him with Cody or Nicho or Burton or Jerome just hamstrings him and therefore we need Yeo to ballplay and lose a middle forward in the process. It works at club level - until the grand final (levels to this!) and it won't work at origin or test level when Cleary could be way more dominant in the 6, and really show off his full toolkit. What do you think? Cheers boys!
Hey lads! Love the show, you guys have great insight and speak your minds honestly. I've got a question and a suggestion: Firstly, I'd love to know what you think about players playing for different national teams throughout their careers. Using DWZ and Staggs for Tonga as an example, Staggs is a young gun on the rise who has switched to Australia once the opportunity came, whereas DWZ switched to Tonga later in his career to make his grandmother proud and do service to his heritage and people, what do you boys think needs to be considered to ensure players have the flexibility needed to represent the diversity in their heritage throughout their career? Second, I know you guys can't post clips from the games, but I would love it if you could put the key stats (teams/score/try scorers +times) as a lower third graphic in reviews. It just helps to remember the games, especially if I've only watched the highlights (sorry if this just made a bunch of work for you Lukey, best of luck with your fight!). Love the show regardless. It's great to hear you guys dissect the game, on and off the field, in such detail.
Mikaele has only played 1 Q Cup match all season. So to the person asking that question please do some research before stating he’s been carving up in that competition 🤦🏻♂️
Keen to hear some coverage on this issue with interrupting a kickers leg. Tigers try was the exact next set after Seizer takes out Schneiders leg. We've had a broken leg with Illias, Penalties in NZ and commentary from other former halves on the matter but no replay no review of what happened.
Sup boys Long time listener first time commenter here, listen to every poddy now since the beginning love the content and appreciate what you provide for us fans. Seeing your TAB bets you place had me thinking. Just a question about NRL Fantasy. I've played fantasy every year now it actually has "encouraged" me to watch nearly every game every week now and I'm sure other levelers also play the game, I actually don't know if current players are allowed to play it or not but i cant imagine so. As former NRL players would be cool to heart your thoughts/experience about it if you have any :) Also an idea off that next year a LEVELS fantasy league with the community you are building would be dope! cheers lads! :)
Hey lads loving the pod, this might be some bulldogs bias but thoughts on burto at 6 for origin. For me he is the blues best out and out 6 atm just a thought? Once again loving the pod really brought me back to loving footy after moving out to Perth keep up the good stuff
I can see why the geographical location was mentioned but here I feel it's a more glaring problem than that. As a NQ supporter I see some serious problems with the selections, defensive coach as well. Whatever they do at training is clearly not working. I think we need some more mobile forwards that are effective workhorses. Having just big players presents the issues you lads spoke of being middle third deficiencies. Maclean I personally have never rated. He just doesn't do the job effective enough for a middle forward imo.
Question for you lads. What do you think means most as to your favourite club when you retire, for example Mase starting out at the dogs and winning a comp there and what i see they are his team, would it be any different if he didnt win a comp with the dogs and did with the roosters or cowboys? What do you think means more,where you start or where you have success? Day1 levels lads from Dylan W
L1 since Day 1 how's it going lads hope you've had a dawg of a weekend quick question for the triple OG lad when are we the fans gonna see you rock the afro again all the best upthewahs
Mikaele has played 1 QCup game.......he's been 18th man for FG the majority of the year. Not sure how he is supposed to show his wares and get his percentages up when he's not getting any game time.......
Great show lads. Corey Parker was on SEN radio this morning saying Jahrome Hughes may ask for a release to the Titans on compassionate grounds. You boys heard anything??
Sam Walker was ruled out category 1 a few weeks ago but Roosters declared that he passed his HIA in the sheds on the night. So how would he still be suffering from symptoms now? - Horo
@levelsnetwork whether or not it's true or an just being used as an excuse to drop him, Robbo did say Sam didn't pass the protocols to play in his round 7 media conference. Don't think Sammy played reserve grade either which might back this up. Regardless as a Roosters fan its tough watching the halves not click with the roster we have. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ugfHPmJVRqI.htmlsi=rSnBYmPRwP6c1wAh
All of negative comments on the roosters, we have had one of the hardest starts to the season and besides the bulldogs game have been competitive against the top sides only losing by a try. I think it’s abit to early to be worried about us and to be questioning Robbos coaching, we will find form in the next couple weeks and work our way to the top 4
Except that Robbo complaining about the Reff, when clearly the Storm had bad calls too! It's not like him? His more like Bellamy. Not Ricky do ya think?
Every club has a little guy that runs his mouth 😂 but tbf the knights players should have put that much effort and passion into their playing and then maybe they would’ve had a chance
All due respect to Teddy, but his time in Origin should be over at this point. I think he is as good this year as he has been for a while, but it's more that I think his game style is not suited for Origin. Turbo is a much better choice if fit. Sorry Teddy.
Yet again roosters problem is keary they do not play well with him he messes up everything he needs to be dropped walker and smith is the future keary is not the player he was 5 years ago, Tmay can play 80 mins and he is being under utilised in the forwards he shoul be starting using JWH as a 30 min impact player same with leniu when he comes back been saying this for weeks check previous ep comments
They should let the boys fight on the field! To much push and shove they know they won’t throw them that’s why we get a lot of players acting tough need to bring in the NHL rules of fighting. They both need to agree to fight each other after that they sort it out 5 mins in the bin to cool off and if a third man comes in send off and a suspension. Man need to be man again
What a week of Footy. Great football but Friday nights ref. Of course, you need to look at the player, so you know where your opponent to the last millimetre _then jump for contest. Disrupter is totally stupid. So many stupid discision by the whole Ref fraternity. They don't even have common sense nor understanding of Footy